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Amos

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The judgments with which God threatens Moab, Juda, and Israel for their sins, and their ingratitude.

  • 2:1
    Haec dicit Dominus : Super tribus sceleribus Moab, et super quatuor non convertam eum, eo quod incenderit ossa regis Idumaeae usque ad cinerem.
    Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom even to ashes.

    Note — 2:1

  • 2:2
    Et mittam ignem in Moab, et devorabit aedes Carioth : et morietur in sonitu Moab, in clangore tubae.
    And I will send a fire into Moab, and it shall devour the houses of Carioth: and Moab shall die with a noise, with the sound of the trumpet:

    Note — 2:2

  • 2:3
    Et disperdam judicem de medio ejus, et omnes principes ejus interficiam cum eo, dicit Dominus.
    And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all his princes with him, saith the Lord.

    Note — 2:3

  • 2:4
    Haec dicit Dominus : Super tribus sceleribus Juda, et super quatuor non convertam eum, eo quod abjecerit legem Domini et mandata ejus non custodierit : deceperant enim eos idola sua, post quae abierant patres eorum.
    Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked.

    Note — 2:4

  • 2:5
    Et mittam ignem in Juda, et devorabit aedes Jerusalem.
    And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem.

    Note — 2:5

  • 2:6
    Haec dicit Dominus : Super tribus sceleribus Israel, et super quatuor non convertam eum, pro eo quod vendiderit pro argento justum, et pauperem pro calceamentis.
    Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.

    Note — 2:6

  • 2:7
    Qui conterunt super pulverem terrae capita pauperum, et viam humilium declinant : et filius ac pater ejus ierunt ad puellam, ut violarent nomen sanctum meum.
    They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name.

    Note — 2:7

  • 2:8
    Et super vestimentis pignoratis accubuerunt juxta omne altare, et vinum damnatorum bibebant in domo Dei sui.
    And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.

    Note — 2:8

  • 2:9
    Ego autem exterminavi Amorrhaeum a facie eorum, cujus altitudo, cedrorum altitudo ejus, et fortis ipse quasi quercus; et contrivi fructum ejus desuper, et radices ejus subter.
    Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath.

    Note — 2:9

  • 2:10
    Ego sum qui ascendere vos feci de terra Aegypti, et duxi vos in deserto quadraginta annis, ut possideretis terram Amorrhaei.
    It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite.

    Note — 2:10

  • 2:11
    Et suscitavi de filiis vestris in prophetas, et de juvenibus vestris nazaraeos. Numquid non ita est, filii Israel? dicit Dominus.
    And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not so, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord?

    Note — 2:11

  • 2:12
    Et propinabitis nazaraeis vinum, et prophetis mandabitis, dicentes : Ne prophetetis.
    And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.

    Note — 2:12

  • 2:13
    Ecce ego stridebo subter vos, sicut stridet plaustrum onustum foeno.
    Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay.

    Note — 2:13

  • 2:14
    Et peribit fuga a veloce, et fortis non obtinebit virtutem suam, et robustus non salvabit animam suam :
    And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life.

    Note — 2:14

  • 2:15
    et tenens arcum non stabit, et velox pedibus suis non salvabitur, et ascensor equi non salvabit animam suam :
    And he that holdeth the bow shall not stand, and the swift of foot shall not escape, neither shall the rider of the horse save his life.

    Note — 2:15

  • 2:16
    et robustus corde inter fortes nudus fugiet in illa die, dicit Dominus.
    And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.

    Note — 2:16

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